Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True

Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by habitue on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:44PM (#11538866)

Check out who won the pulitzers in news this year: http://www.poynter.org/2016/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2016...

Best investigative journalism: Tampa Bay Times & Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Ever heard of them?

This is availability bias.

Good journalism is all over the place. If you're looking at CNN and MSNBC and Fox News and lamenting the state of journalism vs. fluff in the modern era, you're looking in the wrong places! You're literally singling out the shitty news and assuming that represents everything.

I guarantee if you go to your local paper or local news station and check out their investigative journalists, you'll find some incredibly talented, passionate people who report on real stories.

Yes, the economics are such that for every in-depth investigative piece, you have a ton of press release reports, and fluff. But that's true on blogs as well.

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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by nerdponx on Thursday April 21, 2016 @04:39AM (#11540464)

But that's just the problem. Who goes and seeks it out? Most of the country does not, but at the same time does not share ( or doesn't have the wherewithal to follow through on) the skepticism in this thread.

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